Gay Marriage will save the American Economy

Or so it is claimed in all star Prop 8 - The Musical on Funny Or Die

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more... by Jack Black

Cutting right to the point.

This is doing the viral rounds at the moment, 40 inspirational speeches in 2 minutes, funny.

"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi People, you dog"

That's what journalist Muntadar al-Zaid, yelled when he hurled his shoes at "President" Bush. A website has been created to honour his actions, appropriately it's called Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe. People from all over the world are giving the guy a thumbs up.

The moon over The Four Courts

I took this picture this morning on my way in to work, I couldn't believe the moon was so fat and so low, it's a pity I only had my shi**y iPhone camera for the shot.

Making Dublin work harder

John and I just went on a nerdtastic tour of the Houses of the Oireachtas. You're not allowed take photos but I took one of the Christmas tree anyway! Anyone can get a free tour, the porters are amazing tour-guides and full of interesting snippets - (like when Countess Markovitz died, the poor of Dublin loved her so much that they scraped all their pennies together and sent 6 truckloads of flowers to follow her coffin to Glasnevin.)

Malcom Gladwell in UCD

Malcom Gladwell gave a talk last Thursday night in the O'Rielly Hall, mostly covering a section of his new book Outliers, which is pretty great. Turns out one of my main problems in life is how I mitigate my speech, and better news, that's something you can fix!!